"Reporting to you, Senior, the Azure Mist Bay we just occupied is much like our Spirit Creek Bay. It only has a single incomplete spirit vein. These first-tier resources are already their stockpile from many years. Even if they occasionally obtained second-tier resources, they probably traded them for other cultivation resources long ago." Shi Qiuping set down the ledger in her hands and answered respectfully.
"We now control nine spirit veins, correct?" Wang Yu asked again.
"Yes. Ever since you raised the banner of the Mount Mi Sect, four rogue cultivator factions have voluntarily submitted to us. The other nearby minor factions that have yet to submit have also expressed their willingness to follow your lead. Getting them to submit fully should not be difficult either." Shi Qiuping gazed at Wang Yu, her eyes rippling with affection.
"There's no need to seek any more submissions. The Mount Mi Sect's expansion ends here," Wang Yu said without hesitation.
"Well... Senior, wouldn't it be a pity to stop expanding now?" The young married woman paused at his words, then asked with some hesitation.
"I raised the banner of the Mount Mi Sect only to gather some manpower and make it easier to collect cultivation resources. What use is there in occupying so many incomplete spirit veins?
"Besides, if we truly occupied every spirit vein downstream and brought all the rogue cultivator factions under our banner, do you think the Green Water Palace cultivators in the Market City would simply stand by?
"If that were possible, the Yuan Household and the Black Sand Sect would have ruled the entire Cold Billow River region long ago," Wang Yu pointed out calmly.
"You see things clearly, Senior. I was too greedy." Only then did Shi Qiuping understand.
"Most of the spirit veins along the Cold